Job Description
Community Mental Health Nurse with £3000 incentive - Fixed term Contract for 12 months
Our Great Yarmouth Adult Community Mental Health Team are seeking a dedicatedCommunity Mental Health Nurses to join their team on a permanent basis.
We are looking for a nurse who can work independently, as well as within a team, someone who is approachable, flexible, and dedicated to improving the lives of our service users and carers.
Our collaborative team are based at Northgate Hospital in Great Yarmouth and cover the Great Yarmouth Locality where we will visit our service users. You’ll be working alongside a close knit multi-disciplinary team of Assistant Practitioners, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Peer Support Workers, Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Psychiatrists and Care Support Workers.
We provide a community-based service to service users in the Great Yarmouth area; we have excellent working relationships with external agencies and partners who are all working together to develop recovery-based care plans.
We are a developing but established team and are looking for individuals with experience working in the community and with a knowledge/understanding of assessment, referral process, case handling and working collaboratively with the wider MDT.
We’re passionate about enabling our staff to develop by providing a supportive environment & would welcome any applicants who are looking to challenge themselves in a new role.
The ideal candidate will be a qualified professional Nurse with experience of working in the community supporting working age adults with mental health problems following the Care Programme Approach.
We’d like you to be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of your role as a Lead Care Professional and have an understanding of the triage and assessment process, as we accept a number of referrals from GP surgeries and other services.
You’ll need to learn and demonstrate robust and sound assessment skills; our secondary mental health service cares for individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems such as bipolar, trauma, personality disorder and schizophrenia.
We’re always developing new ways of supporting our service users; we boast a thriving Recovery College and Therapeutic Day service.
When you join us, you can expect to enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, case formulation, training and a sound supervision structure. Team members are regularly involved in whole service delivery development, including Day service, Psychological Therapies and joint working with Primary Care.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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** This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000. This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. **